Filed under Consumer · 2018
Lighthouse AI
2015 - 2018, 4 years old
A smart home security camera with 3D sensing and computer vision that could recognize specific family members, pets, and strangers and respond to natural language queries.
Two Stanford self-driving car researchers from Sebastian Thrun's lab built a three-hundred-dollar camera packed with depth sensing and on-device recognition, backed by Playground Global, Eclipse Ventures, and SignalFire. The product launched into a market already saturated by Ring, Nest, Arlo, and sub-$100 Wyze cameras, and could not justify its price premium to mainstream buyers. The company shut down in December 2018, offered full refunds through January 25, 2019, and Apple later bought its patent portfolio in March 2019.
- Founded
- 2015-01
- Shut down
- 2018-12-18
- Funding raised
- $17M
- Years alive
- 4
- Founders
- Alex Teichman, Hendrik Dahlkamp